The (Lack of) Decay of a McDonald’s Hamburger

byJames FurbushonAugust 31, 2010

Just think of this the next time you decide it would make sense to eat at McDonald’s: “Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your kitchen counter, will get moldy relatively fast. Lord knows what some ground beef would smell like after a week. But the artist Sally Davies has been photographing one McDonald’s hamburger and fries every day for 137 days. They look basically exactly the same.”